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"Did you ever hear of old-time routing books for ships?" "Hmmm, I think they're mentioned in James Clavell's historical fiction," Alipang replied. He and George Preston were standing night watch, as the ship cruised on a course to the north-by-northwest. (YES, I KNOW THERE'S A CLASSIC ALFRED...

"That should hold you for the duration of your ship's first mission," said the Bolivian dentist. He was showing ultrasound imagery TO project boss Dominykas Bagdon, OF the Lithuanian gentleman's newly-filled teeth. "Thank you," replied the pollution-control expert. "If I don't get there soon...

Seeking order in chaos, here's a good-enough title for Chapter 144: WOMEN ON A SHIP: NOT BAD LUCK ` A transit crew, specializing in Panama Canal transits, assumed control of the Queen Scavenger for a shuttle run from her Brazilian launch-port to a Peruvian port. The...

.............................................. THIS POST, >ALSO< FROM OCTOBER, IS ALSO REFERENCE IN STORAGE. At the time I am catching up a bit on "Spacebullies," I am also reviving and extending the Alipang Havens chronicles, a work much older than Spacebullies. and entirely different in...

THIS FRAGMENT IS PART OF THE WARHAMMER PLOTLINE. "Is this planet part of that new galaxy?" asked New Stevie Ray Vaughn, the revival of the best white blues musician ever. "I expect so," replied Stevie's wife, the Heyhoverse-born scientist Carolyn Fallacy, whom Stevie by his bardic power had...

MORE WARHAMMER STUFF: Among cheering watchers of the parade were mutated humans of the Votebooth Kinship. Their voices could range lower and higher than regular-human voices; the elders among them reminded their juniors to control their pitch, lest they hurt the ears of parent-species humans...

\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Now our narration leaps over to Extraspeshmar, the capital planet of the Ultraviolentean Empire (the foremost human civilization in this arm of the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy). No already-established character of less than demigod status has yet...

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Must have some idea of how long Alipang's offspring live. Brendan Havens is as likely as anyone to be the ancestor of the adventurous twin brothers on Mercury in Grey Eagle's lifetime. Terrance and Harmony, being younger than most of their generation, definitely must have a good lifespan.

At least Richmond, Virginia still was recognizable. Some people the Havenses remembered were still there; even a few who had taken part in the rally to support Wilson Kramer. After a few conversations here and there, Alipang and Kim caught a northbound train for New York City-- where, in fact...

"It's good luck having _you_ at the wheel when we drive in Virginia," Alipang told Kim; "even if we're in a silly electric car this time. Especially good now, since Blake Matthews isn't here now to protect us against new gangsters." "I'm just glad that Mister Matthews got his family out safely...

)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) I'm finally bumping this thread forward, because a new acquaintance (not yet a T.D.L. member) has shown interest. There may after all be valid cause to ATTEMPT COMPLETION, running on up to the threshold of Grey...

)))))))))))))))))))) JOHNNY-747, HIS WIFE CORTEXA THE FREE-WILLED ANDROID, AND THEIR BRILLIANT SON TEX MASTERSON HAVE BEEN LEFT OFFSTAGE FOR QUITE A WHILE, SINCE THEIR NATIVE SUB-REALITY BASED ON THE "HALO" GAME HAS BEEN CLEANSED FROM ALL MAJOR EVILS, INCLUDING THE OBNOXIOUS MISTER TECTONIC...

Realizing that the retired Street-Bat possessed extensive knowledge of other worlds, many of the Chinese Mountain Warriors came to speak with him about the prospect of traveling to some of those worlds. "Excellent," Deuce replied. "Let me introduce you to a pair of persons from such a world...

|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Dang me if this post on Bat-Earth wasn't left unfinished for three months! "Alipang" and "Musketeers" were holding my attention, because one is nearing its conclusion while the other still is in early stages. But I do need...

FOR THE BEGINNING OF THIS POST, THINK OF THE GUITAR ANTHEM FOR "TOP GUN." FOR THE END OF THIS POST, SEARCH UP THE "ADYA CLASSIC" VERSION OF BEETHOVEN'S ODE TO JOY. H Brendan's domestics were able to furnish rumors that Daisy-Anne Marshwood had been observed always in a gloomy state of...

In the Lower Wenzeppuan town where he had set up his tinsmithing business, young Towerman Diego "Skull Driller" Smith, the one having a foot in the tradesman's world by being a tinsmith, was intrigued when a Loi-Bavrid dirigible descended in the usual space for airship landings. Heading across...

"It's good to see that they've kept Otto's monument in good condition," said Wyatt Hickok. "And good to know that that snake Star Swallower won't be back. Nor any more necromancers." With Wyatt here in Pathamel were his trainees Mezdatch and Frethric, native Pathamelians. Besides...

000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 PUNKSTEEMA. WELLVERNIA, THE SOUTH CONTINENT. BESIDE THE SIX NATIONS RIVER, whose north-to-south course boasts the greatest density of human and near-human population on this half of the planet. Specifically, in the kingdom of...

Bray's charisma was genuine; it even made some of the humans and near-humans present believe that she was attractive. When the applause had subsided, the self-designated small-s superwoman issued instructions to her gullible admirers. "Now, friends, please assist me with a demonstration...